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1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold new reading of canonical modernism in the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby -- 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia -- 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! -- 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Grief in literature.
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Grief in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forter, Greg. Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107004726 (DLC) 2010051117 (OCoLC)691205677 |
| ISBN |
9781139078528 (electronic book) |
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1139078526 (electronic book) |
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9781139080798 |
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1139080792 |
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9781107004726 |
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1107004721 |
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1139070517 |
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9781139070515 |
| Standard No. |
40019534425 |
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